Description |
1 online resource (316 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Preamble; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Proust's and Balzac's Way; Weaving Fiction; Irony, Derision and Paradox; 1. 1958-1998: A Journey through History; As it was in the beginning; A World of Strangers; The Late Bourgeois World; 2. Forty Years On; None to Accompany Me; The House Gun; 3. Man-Woman, Black-White: the Coexistence of Opposites; Black and White Activism; The Conservationist; Burger's Daughter; July's People; Man and Woman as a Couple; The Conservationist; A Guest of Honour |
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Selected Short Stories -- A Find, Sins of the Third Age, You Name ItMy Son's Story; A Sport of Nature; 4. Something Else Out There; Nature and Death; The Conservationist; On Art and Writing; Burger's Daughter; 5. Conclusion: Betrayal and Irony; Betrayal: Selected Short Stories -- Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Oral History, A City of the Dead, A City of the Living, Jump; Self-Irony: A Soldier's Embrace; Bibliography; Translator's Notes; Index; Backcover |
Summary |
A fascinating intersection of intellectual minds, this literary critique views the writing of Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer through the fresh perspective of a respected French academic. Available for the first time in English, this analysis introduces the important works of a South African activist for equality and political freedom to a new audience while creating a multinational reading experience |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Gordimer, Nadine -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Gordimer, Nadine fast |
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Women and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Literature
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Women and literature
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South Africa -- In literature
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South Africa
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Everson, Vanessa
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Shapiro, Cara
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ISBN |
9781920516505 |
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1920516506 |
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9781920499914 |
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1920499911 |
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